The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1905, Page 4

AND AT THE “BAS INQUIRY MURPHY GOT JOBS. polldated Gas Offlolal De- ' ~~ hd Asked for Work. RO QUESTIONS WERE ASKED. iny Never Sought to Learn ) Anything About the Standing of the Contracting Company. (Mayor MoCiéllan this afternoon took witness etand to testify before the tive Committee which is inves: Mayor testified that when he {nto office he knew that the pre- administration had proteste! on Soneyited, hut it was in the scope St haa authority to do es he aid.” He Gent for Oakley. |. @ What 4i4 you then do? A. I sent dor him, asted an explangtion and se- @. reduction of the rate and that oontrasta were better than pre- lowly secured, 1 was convinced that ihe bad ated tn good eaten. Didn't Mr. Oakley tell you that the eduction was conditional on the pay- ) ment of back bills? A, Yes. Q. Did he state the amount of the Seduction? A. Yes, but I don't recall the figures, Q, Did he tell you that the reduction es conditional that companies be paid? ‘A T don't think 0, ) @. DIA you express any approval ef his acta? A, No, Q. And did you approve have not. Q. Did he tell you that taiked wath Comptroiier? A, Yes, and that she SR caresier approved signing the con providing the okty would not be ‘Pequired to pay Interest. Q, Did you take any action with rof- Jerence to Jater bide? A. Yes, 1 ordered @il the bids rejected. ! Q, Your position has been that the eharwes are excessive and should be (mejected. A, Yes. Q, Did you see Commtesioner Oakley the bids for 1905? A, Yes, aud ° my disapproval. Q. Who olse besides Commisstoned @akley sgned those contracis? A. 1 Gon't know, but kt Is a matter of recora that his chief engineer told him that a | reduction would be desirable, \ Q, Have you leanned that any one ad- yited Mr, Oakley Wo sign those con- twats for 1904? A. I have not, @. as any ‘notion been taken by the @liy vw recover posseasion of streeets ‘Now Illegally occupied by mains of the as companies? A. Yea; that matter has heen taken up. We } also begun a ‘faction to gain control of ducts now used legally by Ughting compar Looking Up the Law, A. 1 4. Q, Has the Corporation Counsel in- | per Wostigated {xanrhises Megally eld by Righting companios? A. He ts engaged ‘Mh that work, but it ie ‘not completed dna busy office, @, Has the bast River Gaslight Com- ny Pald the city proportionately for Mhe mains? A. I do not know. @he Mayor then defined his policy Wwith réference to munivipal light ng. He Lexplained vie “experiment” Wiltamsburg bridge, Q. Did you have conferences with Mr. Grout relative to a setiloment of gas wompany cinims? A. No but at the “Rapid Transit meeting Mr, Grout told 4n® that he had disoussed a proposed settlement with Commissioner Oakley, Q. Did you state to the Comptroller ‘that you approved the proposed settle- ment? A. I ad not, ‘The Mayor was then excused, Mofore the Mayor testified the Com- mittee. began to uncover the relations -(potween Charles F. Murphy and the Trust by calling Lewis B, Gawtrey, Meabencen of the Consolidated Gas ny, to the witness stand and ‘AMestioned him about ‘the contract ied the New York Contracting and ? joking Company for the building of @he great Astoria Gas plant, The contracts were offered In evidence Whe fret read by Mr, Hughes was fo (etgetene ren om i26 of eed April’s RECORDS SHOW THAT 24,798 F OF POSITIONS, 6,286 THAN LAST YEAR, the Investigating Com- | under the | ¢ j | In my last chapter I told of the aerial violet dining-room invented by Monsieur Violet. He was to do still greater things, alded by the $400,- 000,000 uf other people's money which I absolutely controlled. Few people know what trouble it {s to control $400,000,000; it is often conducive to grading and filling In Astoria, Mr. Gaw trey could not recall the amount o this contract, but sald, “It was no much,"" Q. How much? A, About eighty, nine ty or §/20,000,"" KIND SIR, END A FIRST t ‘1 1 Find sua Ac ng to another contract the contracting company was to recelve 19 vents cuble feet for ail coneeret lad and three and a ‘half cents a pound for all steel construction required company reserves the right to change f the work at any time its the plan Chief engineer thinks such @ change de- sirable, The bond required was $200,000, No Questions Asked, you question the responsibility A. No; ‘there wasn't 1 you come to give that company t'e contact? A. The engineers sald it was a good concern. Q. Didn't you give them the work bevanse you thought it would be agreeable to Charlies F, Marphyt A, No at, Q. Didn't you make that statement? A. No, air, Q. Do you swear to that? A, Yos. Q@.Do you ar that you never eh be reap it responnl t. ie r mind now? Our engineere reportel that the responsible and we They had the best , tools, dmplements, mas y. and that was satisfactory’ to us, Hughes then read the remaining racks, tery ‘from vhe engineer of he Consoldated Gas Company ved to the contracting hs Jetiors velated only to Instructions aa | to the direction of work on the plant. No Competitive Bidding, , no compet. wan, of cour e ontractst” bidding on Lawyer Hughes, AY 1908, 1s the dat | with return 10 be nature of i, Caffney, Bupt.”” | gif, Gawttey suid he could ‘not astute the amounts of the contracts, ©. Prior to 194 hud your,’ coms any relations with the New Yi tracting Corapany? A. No. a iva any new <i been let ging fm eet DY can breaytay year? A. You; laying Now, York Conti Spherical Chamber and the Mysterious Pumproom, ‘The gas | wasn’ it Wan Hot necesmary ” gaid| Pred anos ‘THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1008. insomnia and gold bricks, It was Monsieur Violet who suggested to me a spherical pumproom in which to make dummy directors from paper pulp eupplied by lapsed policies of the Tnequitable. “How much will it cost, Violet?” I asked, an I smoked a $7.60 cigarette dn a $50 golden tipped | ¥ »: \ Chapter II1.—Wherein Is Related the Story of the holder. Violet sat down and figured on a piece of Oriental vellum for three minutes, “It will cost yon, sir, $6,502,321,21,” he said finally with a sigh. “Pooh! that is easy,” I replied, for T was afrald it might be more, “Get one made inetantly,” “It shall be done,” said Violet, and three days later my spherical cham- Q..No other contracts? A. None that I Enow of, Did you know anything about mew concern—th: new enter- P whone financial reaponsibil Hy Wine HARROWAT. Aut gid mot, ¥ your company had o ie yee of these om irecinl (bs 1® engineer- @ committee poss! G Teant recall, Maybe Mr. Brediey, ouF chief _ engineer. Q. Did you get any reports trom R. ep gr Bradetrest's regarding, the ad contracting Company? A. Q. Who nerot!nted with the company’ A. I don't know, ay Came in and Asked for Work. Q. Who called their existence to you? A. I don't know, They probably came in asked If we had work to do, . y made no other effort to af- fest your mind? A, No. We give out sted in this company hy and James G. | J.J, Muy Gattney? AT dene know Q. Are any of their relatives in it? A. 'T heard that Qharles F. Murphy | was, \ Q. How did you hear tt? A. Through | the hewepareny ue T have also read Mr, Murphy's dental, fi “You; Fou will hear tt dented again,” | sald enator Grady, interrupting Law-!| yor TMughes: | ‘In connection with the grading con- tracts My, Gawtrey sald no mieat Me- sponaibiitiy was tneurred, but in the martter of buitding the plant a bond was demande ator Grady) There was no wnact with the New York was there? A. Q, (By Ben $15,000,000 cons Cantraoting Company, 0, Bir, }, (By Benato diy) Well, that was he”, Ke Face Tore, than, once, tte? AS I belteve It wus, (Laughter.) Benton t hrs ti Tass yrroy ioe the stand Mr. Grout on the Stand. in ‘ea, That is all, Mr Compioller Grout followed Mr. Gaw- trey. Mr. Grout told of the reference o the bids for city Mghting to the Board of Batimate. @. What conclusion did you come to regarding the prices and the course the city should take? A, I net the prices too high and the only remedy In the absence of competition was for the olty to build {ts own plant. Our eppeal to the Legislature was in vain Q. Do you recall that the refection of all ‘the bids, with one exception, was advised? Yes. Q, Haye all the bills beon pala? Noi only percentages, Some outlying 4 80 per cent, ‘The price Q, Did tor advice, ont Commissioner ask ‘oval or disapproval in A. Only in a general y efforts made to induce with the companies? put I declined to do any- the 1904 contracts were Didn't Talk with Oakley, Q. Did you have an interview with Commissioner Oakley? A. I don't recall a ‘a: Didn't he suggest that the back bill could be adjusted If the new con- tracts were signed? A. No, alr, Nothing of the Kind, ¢o1 with the Baison the ed Compa: Comptrolier was ask: H wi wen he had fingt seen Wt “| were signed pri further questions and) | A. won finally adjusted, | Oakl that the signing of contracts for 1904 Muld jeopardize the clatme of 19087 A, I had no auch talk, the contract, to October by Commissioner Oakley without con- iting yor A. You; but it was Q. 1s it a tact STRANGE ADVENTURES OF J. HEAVENS WIDE M, VIOLET’S SPHERICAL CHAMBER FOR MANUFACTURING DUMMY DIRECTORS. DOIN et ver was complete, But why describe it? [have had our chief draughtsman | produce a complete picture of the plant, from which I have turned out’ | already seventeen buards of Inequita- |ble directors, three transfer syndi- cates, four assoolates of ‘Wide and Us," five syndicates fur floating bonds, three banking pools, four blind pools, seventeen holding companies, eight provident associations and nine pro- viding corporations, These associa- tions have been most successful and have netted me §7,333,653.21 in less than six months during bull inar- kets, and $7,321,664.75 in bear mar- kets. I have been enabled in this pertod go give dinners to three am- bassadors, six ministers extraordi- nary, seven consul-generals and a few, hundred such persons as professors [of lterature, artists and so-called in | tellectuals. It is unnecessary to say the press. (To be continued.) pre barged they will surel: tn- erent. The olty woukl be the loser ‘Vice-President Gawtry recalled to the 1» | Stand gave the following as the amount of the several contracts given to Company oy, the Astoria. e and me Company: the} Con ing Heel, Light ROJESTVENSKY TO HOLD FLEET AT KAMRANH BAY |Tokio Hears Russian Is to | Make that Port Base of Operations, |PLANNING SEA RAIDS, Will Send Out Cruisers to Cap- ture Merchant Ships as War Prizes, TO STAY THERE TILL MAY 7. ' seman Hie Transportes Now Bailing Under Rueselan Flag Between that Harbor and Saigon, “Tniformetion recetved here is taken to fmtHionte that tie Russian squadron | roepenee staying at Kameanh Bay until May 7, Admiral Rojestvensky in the mean time sending out eruisers-to over- hed merchantmen proceeding-atong the trade rovte to the Stratts of Mormos. “The transports accompenying the umslan squadron are reported to be Diying between Kamranh Bay and fa- tgon under thd merohant fing of )Roeste.' \ Amoy Reefete Ruselans. respected. It sian equadron comes, but ‘the consuls I have excluded the scandaleers of | sary. ‘trips. The Japanese heave a buiiiing here filled with #tores, suppowed to be medi- cal euppiies. t bill 1 t = It with me. ie Ie only fair to 60 Contract 2, 1908. cargo of esl intended for the Russian mie, Soatract of aeey 3 tome squadron, ci RSC STB ol ARs | Sr Se a sin Eairon Company tn anton “the “Com, Gontract of Dec. 1 YANKEE WARSAIPS Bile, providing a reduced tate Gor are | Total ssseseees WATCH FLERTS. Mending woe granted company. on the busin OC the city bess relieved WASHINGTON, 1. C., Apri OF PAE he, imereat on the old) NINB'S POLICE BILL |Resr-Admiral Tret, fa- Are you st! influenced by public Yon? A. I am willing to give you all the facts In my posseseton, but you are not entitled to my opinion, There wasn't a time during the early contro- versy that former Commissioner Mon- roe would not have been glad to have accepted these very contracts mado by Commissioner Oakley. Q, Couldn't you have fought against the contracts In the courts? A. T have 80 suggested time and again, but we were making a better bargain for the |elty, If the companies now recover the It is the sate cure and reliable plying vital torce to all great tonic invigors 0 " the organs. for weaken: PREV, BLI KELUMR, D, D, tions, throat and lung troubles and @ll weakening and wastl Te pull the 4 oa SLATED TO PASS. Assembly Cities Committee Report Measure with Amendments Agreed On. to The Evening World.) ALB. N. Y,, April 18—The As. sembly Qities Oommittee today re- | ported the Wine’s Polioe bill with the umendments agreed on yesterday, oth the Committee of Nine and the police express satisfaction with the Measure in its present shape and it ts scheduled to pass. : Rev. Eli Keller, D. 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